tr.v., -sored, -sor·ing, -sors.
To cut or clip with scissors or shears.
n.
- scissors (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A cutting implement consisting of two blades joined by a swivel pin that allows the cutting edges to be opened and closed.
- scissors (used with a sing. verb) Sports.
- Any of various gymnastic exercises or jumps in which the movement of the legs suggests the opening and closing of scissors.
- A scissors hold.
[From alteration (influenced by Latin scissor, cutter) of Middle English sisours, scissors, from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, from Late Latin, pl. of cīsōrium, cutting instrument, from Latin caesus, -cīsus, past participle of caedere, to cut.]
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